PARKER, Colo. -- When tragedy strikes, it's normal to feel all alone. That emptiness and isolation motivated a local woman to start something so powerful it has touched lives far beyond our state.

Corinne O'Flynn formed the Rowan Tree Foundation to help rebuild lives after her own daughter, Rowan, died shortly after birth in 1999.

The women who have been helped by the foundation get together to share their pain, and joy. The fact that these women are smiling and enjoying their lives may seem remarkable to many. The bond they share is one that none of them would have wished for. They're supporting one another after losing a child.

"You can see this transformation between just being so broken and not knowing where to move on -- to getting together at the Inverness for lunch. When it happens to you, you feel like the only person it has ever happened to and isolation is probably the biggest thing I felt at the time. We also stand together as hearts who have known pain. Here we stand connected like an interlocking chain," said O'Flynn.

Almost eight years after Rowan left this world, on a snowy December day, Corinne and her Rowan Tree Foundation unveiled the Angel Memorial Project in Parker's East Bank Park. It's a sanctuary, a healing place.

In its simplest form the Rowan Tree Foundation is about not being alone. It's no wonder it has helped countless families.

To learn more about the Rowan Tree Foundation, please visit RowanTreeFoundation.org.